Eric Chu - Android Market

I am pleased to let you know that free applications will become
available in France starting March 15th, when Orange launches the HTC
Dream.  France will join the other countries where users currently can
download free applications:  US, UK, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Czech
Republic, Poland, Australia, and Singapore.  You can make your free apps
available to French users by selecting "All Current and Future Locations".
We will add the option to target France when we add the ability to add
French language listings in the publisher website, which we expect to be
complete by end of this month.

Good news.

Source : email de Eric